Tropical Travel Trouble 010 Fever, Arthralgia and Rash

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog aka Tropical Travel Trouble 010 Peer Reviewer: Dr Jennifer Ho, ID physician QLD, Australia You are an ED doc working in Perth over schoolies week. An 18 yo man comes into ED complaining of fever, rash a “cracking headache” and body aches. He has just hopped off the plane from Bali where he spent the last 2 weeks partying, boozing and running amok. He got bitten by “loads” of mosquitoes because he forgot to take insect repellent. On examination he looks miserable, temp 39.8 °C, HR 115, BP 108/60, blanching maculopapular rash over his face, thorax, and flexor surfaces. Questions: Q1. What could this be? Answer and interpretation expand(document.getElementById('ddet1986166261'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1986166261')) Acute febrile illness in the returned traveller can be a number of diagnoses (not exhaustive): Bacterial: strep throat, leptospirosis, toxic shock syndrome, rickettsia, typhoid, Melioidosis and meningitis. Viral: Fifth disease, enterovirus, scarlet fever, hepatitis, zika, Chikungunya, Roseola, EBV, HIV seroconversion, West Nile virus, influenza, adenovirus, measles and Rubella. Parasitic: malaria Non infectious: ITP, Acute leukaemia, drug reaction and Kawasaki in the young. Due to fact this is a tropical post the most likely culprit is an arbovirus (any disease transmitted by arthropo...
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